WASHINGTON (AP) — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche confronted skeptical questions at a Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday about the creation of a fund to compensate President Donald Trump's allies and a tax immunity deal for the president as he aimed to lock down the Republican ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. reimposed a naval blockade on Iran and intensified its airstrike campaign Wednesday in retaliation for Tehran's attacks on ships trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. The American strikes hit an Iranian army barracks, killed at least ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump wants Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to keep pulling over vehicles, signaling his opposition Wednesday to plans announced just a day earlier to suspend most traffic stops following another string of fatal shootings. It's not clear ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — The Upper Peninsula is in the grips of wildfire smoke at unhealthy, even hazardous, levels today that are expected to last through Thursday and perhaps into Friday. Meteorologists at the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy issued a statewide air ...
Voters in Wisconsin are not going to get a chance to cast another ballot ahead of next month’s election. The state’s Elections Commission recently clarified rules for “spoiling” ballots cast for candidates who have dropped out. “Once an absentee ballot has been returned to the municipal clerk, it cannot be spoiled and reissued for any reason,” the Commission wrote in a letter to the state’s local election clerks. The decision is new, and a reversal from 2022 when the Elections Commission allowed voters to cast a “do-over” ballot in the state’s Democrat primary ...
MARINETTE, Wis. — The Wisconsin Department of Transportation Northeast Region will have construction and full highway closure to replace 42 deteriorating culverts on State Highway 180 from State Highway 64 to U.S. 141 between the village of Wausaukee and the city of Marinette in Marinette County will begin Monday. The project is expected to finish this fall. Inspections have determined that the existing culverts are nearing the end of their service life and are showing significant deterioration. This culvert replacement project includes installation of new culverts, removal and ...
